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I Deal In Lead
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April 18, 1942
 
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Big brass ones.


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Giant, big and heavy.
 
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הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
 
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Hurlburt and Eglin are having a flyby today along the beach. Sounds like it will be everything in the local inventory plus maybe a B-25 will show up too. A C-130 gunship, a C-130 Combat Talon,
V-22, F-15, F-22, F-35, F-16, F-18.
At 1700 East along the beach from down by Hurlburt Field past the boardwalk and on to Destin.
 
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Hurlburt and Eglin are having a flyby today along the beach. Sounds like it will be everything in the local inventory plus maybe a B-25 will show up too. A C-130 gunship, a C-130 Combat Talon,
V-22, F-15, F-22, F-35, F-16, F-18.
At 1700 East along the beach from down by Hurlburt Field past the boardwalk and on to Destin.

I would LOVE to see that. Super cool.


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All those Raiders are gone now... Frown

They have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth"


 
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Yes. And the final "toast of the goblet".
RIP brave men, all of them.

And, Thank You.

-Grateful American

(Hand, Salute)




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AFSOC FB page is supposed to be live streaming the 80th Anniversary Final Goblet Ceremony at 1400 EDT (in other words, right now). I’m having trouble getting it to work right now.


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Doolittle's autobiography "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again" is a must-read.

One of my treasured possessions is an autographed photo of General Dolittle.
 
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Ok, it’s streaming now


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30 Seconds over Tokyo. One of my favorite books as a kid.
 
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I got to tour the inside of a Mitchell at one of the Andrews air shows some years back. I'm not a big guy, but the word cramped doesn't do it justice. My hat is off to those brave aviators who gave the Japs an early idea of the ultimate consequences of their brutal aggression and imperial arrogance.
 
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An Uncle of mine wasn't one of the 80 men on the 16 bombers, but he was on one of the ships involved at the time. I forget which one, the Hornet, Nashville, etc. Not hero status, himself, but pretty cool to be a part of the raid in any way at all.
 
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“... we should thank God that such men lived.”
Patton

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My father had some B-25 time in early 1942 out of New Guinea. Several trips to Rabaul on photo missions. Once they got their A-20’s that was what he flew.

I went to high school with the daughter of one of the Raiders. Didn’t really know that at the time….
 
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I hope a few here had the time to watch the Final Goblet Toast and 80th Anniversary Ceremonies; very moving.


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Doolittle's autobiography "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again" is a must-read.

I'll second that. I'm in the middle of reading the book and amazed at what Col. Doolittle accomplished BEFORE World War II.




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First man to ever do an outside loop in an airplane.
 
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